American Contemporary Illustration Art And Style Research

The art form of illustration design is advancing with the development of society.The expression of "illustration" in Cihai is "illustration also called" illustration ",which refers to the picture inserted in books and periodicals.The main function is to supplement the text or to appreciate the art." It can be seen that the main creation carrier and application scene at the beginning of illustration is in books and newspapers,as a supplementary use of text.But with the development of economy and the popularization of computer,the development extension of illustration is expanding,the traditional painting tools are gradually replaced by digital creation,and the application scene is not only limited to the traditional application platform such as book illustration,which is widely used in film and television,literature,advertising,business and social public affairs.American Illustration design has a long history,and has formed its own unique development mode of illustration.There is a good role of inheritance and communication between illustration and commercial application.For example,the new Yorker of the United States,which was founded in 1925 in the United States,plays a leading role in various fields of politics,culture and art.The cover of each issue of the magazine will adopt illustration to form a unique expression form.The magazine’s long-standing column "urban topics" is devoted to short articles describing the events of New York’s daily life.]In the 92 years since its inception,each issue of the magazine has taken the art form of illustration works as its cover,forming a unique style and providing a good market environment for the development of illustration design.Many excellent illustration designers have emerged,and many illustrators who like painting all over the world flock to the United States.In order to encourage more people who love painting to participate in illustration design,many world-wide illustration competitions are held in the United States every year,such as the 3 * 3 illustration competition in the United States[ The American 3 * 3 illustration competition is a competition proposed by the contemporary illustration magazine "3 *3",which was founded in 2003.This magazine is the only one that focuses on contemporary illustration published in the world.It aims to protect and promote the development of various forms of illustration.In order to achieve this goal,the jury will make yearbooks,plan catalogues for influential works and publish them formally,American Illustration Award,international environmental protection cartoon illustration competition,world illustration competition,etc.Compared with Chinese illustration,American illustration has a longer history,involving more diverse types and styles,and has a mature mechanism in commercial application.This paper introduces the concept of illustration,the current situation and characteristics of American contemporary illustration art,and has a general grasp of the development trend of American contemporary illustration art.In addition,from2008 to 2018,the American Illustration award-winning illustration works as a starting point,to conduct in-depth research on Contemporary American illustration.First of all,the development status,development trend and creative techniques of the American Illustration Award are analyzed and summarized.Then,the works of the American Illustration Award are analyzed from the visual elements of the works,such as point,line,surface,color,composition,perspective,perspective and momentum,to find their artistic characteristics.After analyzing the visual elements,this paper classifies the artistic styles of the American Illustration award-winning works from three aspects: style,method and theme.From the style of expression,it can be divided into concrete style,abstract style and image style;from the classification of expression methods,it can be divided into hand-painted style,digital style,hand-made style and photographic style;from the theme of expression,it can be divided into character themed illustration,animal themed illustration,plant themed illustration and still life themed illustration Illustration and scenery as the theme of illustration.Secondly,the analysis of the application of the American Illustration award-winning works includes the analysis of 3d illustration works of art,advertising illustration works of art,animation illustration works of art,book illustration works of art,etc.through the analysis of the application of different categories of illustration works,master the main aspects of the application of American illustration works and the development trend of various kinds of illustration works in the future Potential.Finally,based on the analysis of the American Illustration Award,the author creates his own illustration works,including a series of creative practice processes such as creative idea,illustration art style,sketch,line draft,etc.,and summarizes and realizes the whole creation process.It is hoped that this paper will have an overall grasp and understanding of the artistic style and the application of illustration works of American Illustration Design for the colleagues who like illustration design,and will have certain inspiration and reference significance for their own illustration creation.